1932 – First Regular Mail Service to London (From Mpika)
First Regular Mail Service to London
From Mpika
E. D. Bowie First Day Covers – Northern Rhodesia 1937 – Coronation
Counsell’s Lusaka Hotel Ltd Lusaka In 1914, Canadian Couple Mr.& Mrs. Councell’s, registered the Counsell’s Lusaka Hotel. The Councell’s family seized the opportunity in the hospitality business due to the economic boom in Lusaka emanating from the opening up of the first hospital built south of Villa Elizabetta in 1918. In the same year the financial sector saw…
Gevaert Type IA (Kitwe) FB
Royal Tour 30 April – 29 July 1925 The young Prince of Wales, later to abdicate as King Edward VIII, visited South Africa in 1925. It was a grand affair with large welcomes at the all the extravagantly decorated towns he visited between his arrival on April 30th and his departure almost 3 months later…
Rhodesian and Nyasaland Airways 1935 From Blantyre to Beira Blantyre Printing & Publishing Company Rhodesian & Nyasaland Airways Ltd Commercial Covers
Seventh-Day Adventist Church Mwami Mission Station The Mwami Mission Station was purchased by the Seventh-Day Adventists in 1925. Located 30km southeast of Chipata in the Eastern Province of Zambia and just 8km west of the Malawi-Zambia border, the mission was created to serve the people across that region. In 1927, a hospital with established at…